Murray Gell-Mann and the Physics of Quarks

• Main Author: Fritzsch, Harald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Classic Texts in the Sciences,
• Subjects: Nuclear physics.; Mathematical physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Mathematical Physics.

Murray Gell-Mann, Physics Nobel Prize Laureate in 1969 is known for his theoretical work on elementary particle physics and the introduction of quarks and together with H. Fritzsch the "Quantum Chromodynamics". Based on four sections the Editor gives an overview on the work of Gell-Mann an...

Table of Contents:

• Murray Gell-Mann
• Isospin and SU(3)-Symmetry
• THE EIGHTFOLD WAY
• Quarks
• Quarks, 1964
• Light Cone Current Algebra
• Quantum Chromodynamics
• Light-Cone Current Algebra, Decay, and e+e- Annihilation
• Current Algebra: Quarks and What Else?
• Advantages of the color octet gluon Picture.